The Woot Pool Created 17 years ago2006-07-15 22:04:09 UTC by Soup Miner

I felt like converting a bunch of Source crap and made part of a HLDM map with it. I don't know if I'll actually finish it but I really like how it looks now. Cheggit.

The water looks amazing ingame. I know it doesn't show with the screenshot but there's 3 layers of water there, 2 func_conveyers and a func_water. Ingame it actually looks pretty close to Source water(minus the reflections of course).
PS: Woot for big empty areas.

The textures look ?ber, are they from Rim's?

Do you have the conveyors intersecting the func_water, or would that cause nasty uglies?

No, I converted the textures myself. They are left in their original glory, 512 x 512 and shrunken to .25 for Souce quality(except for the floor, which has been preshrunk to 256 x 256 and is only .5 ingame). the water is overlapping itself, thanks to the transparency there is no texture fighting.

The screenshot looks rather dull really, the colors aren't fresh or pool-like. But the conveyor water trick works nice, ah? I used it several times in The Playtest, only without an added func_water.

when I try to add anything bigger than 256x256 i get errors like too big texture.

Those wall textures look astounding!

they're just HL2 ports

yeah, but they still look good

when I try to add anything bigger than 256x256 i get errors like too big texture.

You just get a warning. I get those all the time. They don't actually affect the compile.

Captain P, most indoor pools that I have been to have that same aqua green lighting. Sorry if it doesn't look fresh(fresh? Like clean?), I just based it off of my experiences.

Yeah, fresh as in clean. Perhaps it's the strong dark-greenish tone of the screenie that makes it look like muddy water, or the greyish water surface itself. Try some more blueish or more intense greenish?

512 x 512 textures get filtered by the game and get kinda weird. 256 x 256 is the best size because its the largest size the game can handle before it mip-maps them down in resolution.

The lights under the water need a sprite. With the right spritework, you can make it look glossy, but not entirely reflective.

The walls and celing needs something, they look too plane. Otherwise it's ok